Sorry If you missed our tour of Awbry Arboretum and Stenton on ...

There were seven of us weeding yesterday–Sandy Beale, Bonnie Buchak, Judi Garst, Michele Jameson, Julie Roegge, Presley Schwinn and Connie Stelzenmuller. The weather was wonderful despite the air quality resulting from fires in Canada and NJ.  We gathered in the beginning as usual for instructions from Sam Nestory and Kristen Ryan, the Stoneleigh staff, about which weeds to pull.  There are always some freebie plants, not weeds, to transplant into our own gardens.

While listening to the instruction, we did have ...

Report from Garden Club of America Annual Meeting
Columbus Ohio
May 23 – May 24
Connie Stelzenmuller, President
Michele Jameson, Delegate

The Theme of GCA Annual Meeting centered around the drawings of Maurice Sendak’s children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are.” Everywhere you turned, his art was displayed on signage, plants, flowers, exhibits, clothing and much more. It was a charmer.

The weather couldn’t have been more pleasant in Columbus, Ohio for the 2023 annual meeting and all that we learned and ...

When you see these members, give them a huge thanks for volunteering today at the Physic Garden at Penn Medicine–Bonnie Buchak, Judi Garst, Sarah Collier, Margie Stevens and Edwina White

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Ronald McDonald House

Several of us got together at Church of St. Asaph in Bala Cynwyd to create arrangements for the RMH.  A huge thanks to Holly Amsterdam for her leadership in so many ways.  She knows where to get the flowers, how to encourage her sources ...

Flowers Among Flowers

What a wonderful turnout for our Fall 2022 maintenance day at St. John’s Presbyterian Church on Monday, October 17. We have a meaningful relationship with St. John’s for our flower shows. For two maintenance days, we get two meetings a year—can’t beat that.

The weather that was iffy with showers predicted only a few days before, but the day turned out to be sunny and beautiful. The soil was a pleasure ...

Read and see below where your members were volunteering at Stoneleigh or visiting gardens that benefit from the PCGCA Fertilizer Fund:

Stoneleigh  Volunteering– September 20

Seven of us arrived with diggers to remove weeds and clippers to remove vines—Sandy Beale, Eileen Longacre, Bonnie Buchak, Presley Schwinn, Sally Bauer, Wyn Coghlan and Connie Stelzenmuller.  We were rained out on our regular first Tuesday of the month and this was our fill-in date.  It was a beautiful, dry fall day.  We usually have Lindsey ...

Today, Tuesday, March 8, 2022 was cold and windy, but that didn’t stop a mighty group of our gardeners from enjoying the pruning workshop at Stoneleigh in Villanova.

A big thanks goes to Sandy Beale our civic engagement chair who organized this workshop with Sam Nestory of Stoneleigh.  You can see from the pictures below we were on our hands and knees getting down and dirty pruning in this lovely garden.  Some examples of what we learned was how to prune ...

Our Weed Wrangle at Stoneleigh

On Tuesday, November 2, The Gardeners gathered for a Weed Wrangle for their last workday at Stoneleigh. We’ll be back as a group in April 2022. It was damp and overcast, but that didn’t stop us from enjoying being together.

We mostly worked on the long median garden in the parking lot that collects a lot of the rain water runoff. We used our hori hori garden knives, Japanese weeding sickles; and other hand weeders ...